Ward sipiwiyiniwak Update for January

Sarah Hamilton
Jan 20
6 min read

Updated: Jun 2

Introducing Rent Ready

Know more and stress less

The City of Edmonton is helping renters find and keep housing through free courses on tenant rights and responsibilities, budgeting, home maintenance and navigating the application process. Rent Ready courses, offered in partnership with Bissell Centre, C5 Hub and the Edmonton Public Library, are part of the City's efforts to prevent homelessness by empowering tenants.

Renting can be complicated. To make it easier, these courses teach people about the rights and responsibilities of tenants and landlords, ways to find savings and make the most of their money, creating a safe home, communicating effectively with landlords and applying to rent.

Two types of courses are offered:

Basic Course: a three hour in-person course that gives renters the knowledge and tools they need to find housing that works for them.
Certificate Course: a more in-depth four week in-person course. Upon completion, participants will receive a certificate recognized by The Alberta Residential Landlord Association as a reference for rental applications.

More than one-third of Edmonton households rent. The City and its partners want to empower people to become great tenants so they can find and keep their housing.

The free Rent Ready courses are part of the City’s efforts to prevent homelessness and housing insecurity and create an inclusive Edmonton for all of us. Everyone deserves safe, stable and adequate housing.

Learn More About Rent Ready

What's It Worth?

Understanding your property assessment

More than 430,000 property assessment notices were sent to Edmontonians on January 10. Property assessments are a key part of the property tax process because they determine each property owner’s fair share of taxes to support the City’s 70 services, such as fire rescue, transit, police and road maintenance.

Property assessments reflect the City’s estimate of a property’s market value, which is the amount that a property would have sold for on the open market, as of July 1, 2024. An assessment notice provides the assessed property value only and is not a tax bill.

City Council set a 6.1 per cent tax levy increase for 2025. Changes to individual tax bills will depend on how your property’s assessed value changed compared to the overall market change within your residential or non-residential assessment class. If your assessment goes up more than the average, your tax increase will be higher than 6.1 per cent; if your assessment change is lower than the market change, your tax change will also be lower.

In 2025, the overall residential market change is 6.8 per cent and the overall non-residential market change is -1.5 per cent.

When you receive your property assessment notice:

REVIEW the details on your assessment notice. Accurate information ensures you only pay your fair share of property taxes
CHECK what makes up your property assessment value and compare it with similar properties in your neighbourhood.
CALL 311 for one-on-one support.

Still have concerns?

Should you still have any questions or concerns after speaking with 311, you can file an official complaint with the Assessment Review Board.

How is my property assessed?

The following video explains how the City of Edmonton calculates your property tax.

Key Dates

January 10, 2025 to March 19, 2025

This is the 2025 Assessment Review Period. Residents have until March 19 to review their assessments, and if required, submit their formal complaint.

March 19, 2025

This is the deadline for filing formal property assessment complaints.

March/April 2025

During this time, the Government of Alberta establishes its budget to fund the provincial education system. The City of Edmonton must collect provincial education property taxes from Edmonton property owners on behalf of the provincial government.

May 2025

Property tax notices are mailed to all property owners.

June 30, 2025

This is the deadline to pay your property taxes.

Learn More About Property Assessment in Edmonton

Share Your Voice. Shape Your City.

There are many ways to engage with the City of Edmonton

The City of Edmonton invites residents' input into projects, policies and initiatives that grow communities, establish government services and prepare the city for the future. Below are current opportunities for Edmontonians to shape their city.

IN WARD SIPIWIYINIWAK

Touchmark at Wedgewood Land Development Application

The City invites feedback on a Land Development Application for Touchmark at Wedgewood (18333 Lessard Road NW) in the Donsdale neighbourhood. The application seeks to rezone the existing Area B - Medium Density Residential to Area A - Low Density Residential to build up to 41 units of semi-detached seniors villas on the site. The villas will have a maximum of height of three storeys each.

You can provide feedback until January 26, 2025.

AROUND THE CITY

Engage and Play: Shaping Public Recreation in Edmonton

The City of Edmonton wants input on sports and active recreation needs as it grows towards a population of two million.

Help shape the future of fun in the city. Share your feedback until February 28.

StrathconaBlok99 Land Development Application

The City invites feedback on a land development application from The Consulting Source to rezone 9009 and 9013 - 99 Street NW and 9854 and 9860 - 90 Avenue NW from a Direct Control Zone (DC2.1225) to the Medium Scale Residential Zone (RM h28.0). The proposed RM h28.0 Zone would allow for a mid-rise residential development with a maximum height of eight storeys with limited commercial opportunities at ground level.

Engagement on this proposal has been reopened to gather further feedback due to the disruption of the November 11 mailed notices caused by the Canada Post strike

Share your feedback until January 26.

See Other City-Wide Engagement Opportunities

Request to Speak at a Meeting

Follow Along

Upcoming Council & Committee Meetings

Interested in a topic of discussion? Want to see how Council meetings work?

Have questions about a rezoning or development application in your area?

Most City Council and Committee meetings are open to the public.

Council & Committte Meeting Calendar

MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO WARD SIPIWIYINIWAK

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | Executive Committee Meeting

Items for Discussion:

Surplus School Sites - Sale or Lease of Land Below Market Value
Winspear Expansion Project
Derelict Residential Tax Subclass - Update
LRT Rider Cellular Connectivity
and more!

Friday, January 24, 2025 | Public Hearing

Items for Discussion:

Charter Bylaw 21043 - To amend the West Henday District Plan
Bylaw 21004 - To amend the Lewis Farms Area Structure Plan
Bylaw 21005 - To amend the Rosenthal Neighbourhood Structure Plan
Bylaw 21006 - To allow for small scale commercial centres and a range of small scale housing, Rosenthal
Bylaw 21021 - To allow for the preservation of natural areas, parks, infrastructure, a range of small to medium scale housing, River's Edge.
Bylaw 21022 - To allow for infrastructure, medium scale housing and medium scale mixed use development, River's Edge.
Bylaw 21026 - To amend the Granville Neighbourhood Structure Plan
Bylaw 21027 - To allow for a range of small and medium scale housing, Granville
Bylaw 21028 - To close a portion of alley, West Meadowlark Park

Monday, February 3, 2025 | Public Hearing

Items for Discussion:

Bylaw 21038 - To allow for a range of small to medium scale housing, Stillwater
Bylaw 21040 - To allow for a range of small scale housing, River's Edge
Bylaw 21041 - To amend the Edgemont Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan

The City of Edmonton is pleased to offer a live stream of Council & Committee meetings on its YouTube page. In addition, you will also find recordings of past meetings.

City of Edmonton YouTube

Request to Speak at a Council or Committee Meeting